Power Outages
(Bangor) – As a wall of heavy wind followed a day of steady rain, trees and limbs came tumbling down across Maine, bring power lines down with them. The result – more than 75-thousand power outages Sunday. Linemen hit the road in bucket trucks, cutting big trees off the lines and splicing together the broken wires. They didn’t get it all yesterday, but they did get most of the outages fixed. As of early this morning Emera Maine still had about 29-hundred outages and Central Maine Power a little over 4-thousand. Everyone is expected back on later today.
Lamoine Ladder Truck
(Lamoine) – Firefighters in Lamoine are in the process of putting a 21-year old ladder truck into service. It just arrived from British Columbia and was being lettered up this weekend. Fire Chief Skip Smith tells Star 97.7 despite being a small town, Lamoine can use a big truck. Smith anticipates placing the truck on the road in a couple of weeks once training is complete. The truck cost $100-thousand dollars plus shipping.
Drug Bust & Arrests
(Holden) Drug agents seized 9 grams of heroin and a small amount of crack from a car they pulled over in Holden. Facing drug charges are 50-year-old Melissa Norwood, 54-year-old Dwight Norwood, 32-year-old James Richardson and 24-year-old Mariah Ryan, all from Ellsworth. The quartet was returning from a trip to Massachusetts. Both Norwoods have previous drug convictions.
CT Man Arrested
(Bangor) A Connecticut man on probation in Maine for drug trafficking is back behind bars. Drug agents followed 37-year-old Jason Pete’s rental car from Interstate-95 to a home in Bangor on Thursday. A search of the vehicle allegedly turned up 900 individual bags of suspected heroin and 13 grams of crack. Pete is charged with felony drug crimes and violating his probation.
Domestic Violence
(Bangor) A Bangor man accused of threatening his ex-wife with a knife at her apartment has been charged. A Penobscot County grand jury indicted 54-year-old Howard Williams on multiple charges Wednesday, including attempted murder, aggravated assault and domestic violence criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon. Bangor police arrested Williams on August 5th after receiving a call about a domestic disturbance from a neighbor in the victim’s apartment. Investigators say Williams tried to strangle his ex-wife and threatened her with a large knife. He’s held on $150-thousand-dollars bail.
Arson-Burglary Arrest
(Presque Isle) A Presque Isle man is charged in connection with a fire that destroyed a work truck in September. 27-year-old Spencer Goodine faces Arson, Burglary, and other charges. Fire investigators and forest rangers responded to a woods road in northern Maine on September 3rd where a truck owned by TNT Road Company of Fort Kent was intentionally torched. Authorities estimate the truck’s value and some stolen equipment at $100-thousand-dollars. Goodine was arrested this week. Many of the stolen tools and supplies from the truck are still missing.
Cook Exposed
(Machias) A former cook at the Washington County Jail is in hot water for allegedly exposing himself to an inmate. The incident was reported to a Corrections Supervisor in early August. The jail refused to let 22-year-old Dakota Robinson of Machias back to work and the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office was brought in to investigate. Robinson is accused of 2 counts of Indecent Conduct and Trafficking Tobacco in a Correctional Facility. He’s got a December court date in Machias and he no longer works at the Washington County Jail.
Deer Crash
(Castine) Three Maine Maritime Academy students were injured, one of them critically, during a deer crash last week. 18-year-old Thomas Spurling of New Gloucester hit the deer on the Castine Road. The impact sent his car off the road and into a tree. Spurling was life-flighted to a Bangor hospital in serious condition. His two male passengers suffered non-life threatening injuries.
Sports
- New England Patriots 31 Green Bay Packers 17 (James White ran for 2-touchdowns, Patriots win 6th straight).
- NBA – Indiana Pacers 102 Boston Celtics 101
- Three Red Sox players named gold glove winners; Mookie Betts, Jackie Bradley Jr. and Ian Kinsler
High School Soccer State Champions
Boys
“A” Lewiston 1 Gorham 0
“B” Presque Isle 3 Freeport 2 (2OT)
“C” Wanflete 3 Fort Kent 1
“D” N. Yarmouth 3 Penobscot Valley 1
Girls
“A” Camden Hills 1 Scarborough 0
“B” Cape Elizabeth 2 Presque Isle 1
“C” Fort Kent 1 Maranacook 0
“D” N. Yarmouth 3 Central Aroostook 1
